Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 21:16     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
I have two advanced degrees in fields unrelated to history or education, but the intelligence that enabled me to complete those degrees makes me able to learn new content. I have taught AP history/social studies courses for the last 13 years with an 87% pass rate. While I have seen some AP teachers that are not adequately educated for their courses, nearly all have been dedicated to try learning that content. Just look out for the first year or two that someone is teaching a new course; your student will need to do outside preparation.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 11:46     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Anonymous wrote:Is there a reason you think AP classes should have better teachers than other classes?

The material is more advanced, so teachers should have a greater degree of subject matter knowledge. Same reason why people think high school teachers should have more subject matter knowledge than middle school teachers
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 09:40     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Is there a reason you think AP classes should have better teachers than other classes?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 09:38     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
My kid is currently in APUSH. His teacher is also the varsity baseball coach. I have no idea where his degree is from, or what his highest level of education is. My kid took the AP exam about 2 weeks ago, and said he felt prepared and like he did well. That's what matters to me.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 08:40     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having an advanced degree doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. And most teachers’ advanced degrees are in education, or something equally worthless, not in the subjects they teach.

You don’t need to take every opportunity available to insult teachers.

Most teachers have advanced degrees. Some are in education, and many are not.
Heck, many of us don’t even have bachelor degrees in education. It isn’t required for certification.

OP,
Teaching is an art. You clearly need content knowledge. You also need to be able to effectively communicate, motivate, and even entertain. The worst teacher I’ve ever worked with had several advanced degrees. He was brilliant, but he couldn’t motivate or manage students. The best teacher I’ve ever worked with has a BA.

Ex-teacher here. I agree with all of this post except the first sentence (the PP insulted college level Ed programs, but not teachers).
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2023 08:34     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Anonymous wrote:
The two worst teachers I’ve taught with in recent years had doctorates in their respective fields (HS so not an ed doctorate). Kids couldn’t stand them and they were ineffective at getting their content knowledge across to students. Both very smart but ineffective.


So accurate. I have a master’s in my content area and even though I was “trained” to be adjunct faculty at my university, I was taught literally nothing in teaching methods. My master’s in education and student teaching experience prepared me far more than the content area education did.


My kid's chemistry teacher with a doctorate was the best teacher he ever had.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2023 17:11     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
The two worst teachers I’ve taught with in recent years had doctorates in their respective fields (HS so not an ed doctorate). Kids couldn’t stand them and they were ineffective at getting their content knowledge across to students. Both very smart but ineffective.


So accurate. I have a master’s in my content area and even though I was “trained” to be adjunct faculty at my university, I was taught literally nothing in teaching methods. My master’s in education and student teaching experience prepared me far more than the content area education did.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2023 16:43     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Dr. Hogewood
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2023 16:41     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Having an advanced degree doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. And most teachers’ advanced degrees are in education, or something equally worthless, not in the subjects they teach.


You don’t need to take every opportunity available to insult teachers.

Most teachers have advanced degrees. Some are in education, and many are not.
Heck, many of us don’t even have bachelor degrees in education. It isn’t required for certification.

OP,
Teaching is an art. You clearly need content knowledge. You also need to be able to effectively communicate, motivate, and even entertain. The worst teacher I’ve ever worked with had several advanced degrees. He was brilliant, but he couldn’t motivate or manage students. The best teacher I’ve ever worked with has a BA.


+1

The two worst teachers I’ve taught with in recent years had doctorates in their respective fields (HS so not an ed doctorate). Kids couldn’t stand them and they were ineffective at getting their content knowledge across to students. Both very smart but ineffective.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 16:42     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
W school ours was an idiot football coach

Seriously lacking in educational skills

Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 16:39     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Anonymous wrote:Having an advanced degree doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. And most teachers’ advanced degrees are in education, or something equally worthless, not in the subjects they teach.


You don’t need to take every opportunity available to insult teachers.

Most teachers have advanced degrees. Some are in education, and many are not.
Heck, many of us don’t even have bachelor degrees in education. It isn’t required for certification.

OP,
Teaching is an art. You clearly need content knowledge. You also need to be able to effectively communicate, motivate, and even entertain. The worst teacher I’ve ever worked with had several advanced degrees. He was brilliant, but he couldn’t motivate or manage students. The best teacher I’ve ever worked with has a BA.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 08:10     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Many public high schools hire coaches and then pay them to be a “history teacher.” Coaches usually have good classroom management skills but little content knowledge. It’s a sad world that values sports so highly.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 07:16     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
PP. My child’s APUSH teacher has a BA from Liberty and is a coach of one of the HS teams, and he was excellent.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 07:15     Subject: Re:Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
Having an advanced degree doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. And most teachers’ advanced degrees are in education, or something equally worthless, not in the subjects they teach.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2023 07:04     Subject: Who teaches the AP history classes at your child’s high school?
I don’t live in the DC area. I was looking at my zoned high school website and was surprised to find that the AP World History and Honors World History teacher has “only” a BS is social science education. He was also recently named the head football coach. Looking around the website, it seems that most of the social science teachers are also sports coaches. Is your child’s school the same?